Post #786467

A word of sage advice for all of you homelabbers. I bring to you, from my decades of experience, my wealth of knowledge, and from the depths of my IT grit this piece of information, that I am sure none of you have ever considered before. When you build a new system, staging it in your home office where you have access to it for things like, connecting installation media, and displays, and whatnot, and after your lovingly crafted system is ready to be moved to its new home in your rack in the basement. Take care to transport your system, prepare a port on your switch before you get there, and have an ethernet cable ready. Don't forget to find a free power outlet in your UPS! and be careful not to jostle other systems connections as you connect things. Then power on your new system with the confidence that it will boot up and be accessible within mere moments because you thought of everything, you know its ready. Then spend 15 minutes back in your office scratching your head wondering why it didn't come up... And realize... You forgot to plug in its ethernet cable. #homelab #selfhosting #IT #sysadmin